The House of Representatives has asked the Federal Ministry of Works and the Federal Road Maintenance Agency to immediately carry out remediation work on some federal roads across the country to ease movement. The roads are Oba-Nnewi-Uga-Akokwa-Arondizuogu-Okigwe roads, Benin/ Warri/Port Harcourt road, Ewu- Uromi-Agbor, Auchi-Ewu-Benin road and the Abuja/ Kaduna/ Zaria/ Kano Federal Highway among others.

Leading the debate on a series of motion on the state of federal Roads across the country, Hon. Ikeagwuonu Ugochinyere representing Ideato North and South federal constituency of Imo State said the roads have turned death trap for travellers. He further informed the stunned lawmakers that the deplorable state of the roads had also forced inhabitants of the affected communities to flee from their homes to seek safety and shelter elsewhere.

Hon. Ugochinyere also said that now that the rain is here, the already deplorable state of the road has been worsened and inhabitants of the said communities no longer able to go about their daily activities freely, as their lives and properties are under threat due to the torrential erosions that ensue from the rains. He said that if no serious remedial or reconstruction work is carried out on the road, the lives, businesses and economy of inhabitants of the affected communities will be completely crumbled.

The House consequently asked the government to commence the rehabilitation of the failed sections of Warri-Benin-Port Harcourt road and Ewu- Uromi-Agbor, Auchi-Ewu-Benin road, to ease the difficulties encountered on the roads.

Source: The Nation